How much attention do we pay to attention deficits in poststroke aphasia?
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Stroke
Volume
54
Issue
1
First Page
55
Last Page
66
PubMed ID
36542078
Publisher
American Heart Association
School
School of Medical and Health Sciences
RAS ID
56529
Abstract
Although language deficits are the primary area of weakness, people with poststroke aphasia often experience challenges with nonlinguistic cognitive skills, including attention processing. The purpose of this review is to synthesize the evidence for the relationship between attention deficits and language deficits in people with poststroke aphasia. Three different types of studies are reviewed: (1) studies exploring whether people with poststroke aphasia exhibit concomitant attention and language deficits, (2) studies explicitly exploring the relationship between attention and language deficits in people with poststroke aphasia, and (3) either language or attention (or both) treatment studies exploring whether treatment gains in one domain generalize to the other. In the last section, we briefly review research evidence for the neural basis of the attention-language relationship in aphasia.
DOI
10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.037936
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Varkanitsa, M., Godecke, E., & Kiran, S. (2023). How much attention do we pay to attention deficits in poststroke aphasia?. Stroke, 54(1), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.037936